funnel

A funnel is a cone-shaped utensil with openings at the base and the tip. (noun)

An example of funnel is what people use to add motor oil to their car without spilling.

See funnel in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

an instrument consisting of an inverted cone with a hole at the small end, or a tapering or cylindrical tube with a wide, cone-shaped mouth, for pouring liquids and powders into containers that have small openings
a thing shaped like a funnel
1. a cylindrical smokestack, as of a steamship
2. a chimney or flue

intransitive verb, transitive verb funneled or funnelled, funneling or funnelling

See funnel in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(fŭnˈəl)

noun

a. A conical utensil having a small hole or narrow tube at the apex and used to channel the flow of a substance, as into a small-mouthed container.
b. Something resembling this utensil in shape.
A shaft, flue, or stack for ventilation or the passage of smoke, especially the smokestack of a ship or locomotive.

verb fun·neled or fun·nelled, fun·nel·ing or fun·nel·ling, fun·nels

verb, intransitive

To take the shape of a funnel.
To move through or as if through a funnel: tourists funneling slowly through customs.

verb, transitive

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